Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-01-13
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pedestrian. He never waits for the
street cars or hires a cab, but daily
walks both ways from his home in the
west end to the capital.
1t is not unusual to find eggs in fowls
killed for the table. but it is unusual to
find chickens. This is said, on good
authority, to have happened in Emil
nence, Mo-, where fully developed
chick. enclosed In a sort of pouch. was
found inside hen that was being pre-
pared for the pot.
John Jacob Astor is rated at $780,
100000. and is probably the richest
man in America. tho great bulk of his
property consisting of real estate. He
married Miss Gibbs of Charleston, S.
c., and William Waldorf Astor, the ex-
minister to Italy. is his only son. The
old gentleman is q liberal liver and
somewhat equity.
The breaking Of dishes is great item
in the expense account of New York
hotels. The greatest amount of break
age is in handling and washing; dishes
may not be actually broken at first, but
they are constantly nicked and cracked,
and, after that, soon go to pieces. Two
of the leading houses sustain loss Of
at least $4,000 annually in this way.
According to Science it would APP
pear that the bogus butter issue" is
not confined to the United States. A
similar agitation is taking place in
| India, and bill dealing with the
adulteration of ghee, or clarified butter.
introduced in response to the urgent
demands of the native community,
has recently been passed by the Bengal
Council.
Charles Baker, a Texas farmer, be-
came insane over his wife's death, and
his servants fled. He amused himself
by killing his live stock, and shot every
thing moving, even chickens. HIS
| neighbors went to arrest him, and after
| firing on them, he rushed to an upper
room, placed himself at the window
and cut his throat. then turned pistol
against his head, fired and fell dead.
The princess of Wales lately got from
Paris winter costume trimmed with a
dark gray fur which she greatly adj
mired. You are portsman," she
shortly afterward remarked to her bus
band; tell me what kind of fur this
| isp" 81 don't hunts rats and MICE" he
replied, laughing; IL leave that to the
sewer men," And now the princess
doesn't like the costume as well as she
did.
Oliver Payne, when visiting his sis
ter in New York, sleeps on bedstead
which cost $4,000. Secretary Whitney's
| friends say that after his father-in-law
had made him present of this house
in New York he complained that he
could not keep it; that 1t took more
money than he could earn to pay the
taxes, keep servants, and sustain the
| place. Thereupon Col. Oliver Payne,
who was bachelor, gave his sister ST.
100000 to go to housekeeping.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat, refer.
ring to a contract recently made be-
tween London mining company and
an American manufacturing firm says
it is one'of the most remarkable on
record. The company proposes to work
extensive gold LANDS in Africa, and
needing a large lot of machinery in
quired in all the large cities of Europe
and America, and finally placed its or
der with an American firm. There are
to be six stamp-mills complete.
A California horse-thief asked .
rough-looking man in Sacramento
where he could find good criminal
lawyer. The man showed him a law.
yer's office, and stood by while he con-
fessed to have stolen horse in San
Joaquin county. The lawyer said the
case looked bad. Then | guess I'll
skip out" said the thief Not to-day"
SAID the rough-looking man, who was o
special policeman, and who promptly
locked up the careless criminal
Col. Jake Child, the poetic Missourian
who is representing this government in
ministerial capacity at the court OF
the king of Siam, writes a letter to his
home paper in old Missouri, which
starts off in the following strain: again
| watt you missive over the sun-kissed
seas, from far Orient, land of legends"
etc. 1t is apparent, says the New York
World. that Col. Jake's florescent style
of composition has not been dulled by
his brief residence among the prosaic
SIamese.
An eastern merchant says the amount
of goods stolen from large dry goods
houses during year is insignificant.
Professional shoplifters, he says, are
scarce. and they do not last long. for
their actions while making a raid ex-
pose them to the clerks. 1t is an easy
thing to detect thieves. Shoplifters are
always women; men are so out of place
in dry goods store. Women are not
likely to become skillful thieves, and if
they do their greed generally leads
them to try to carry away too many
things
Recently Oscar Kidd, of Port Jervis,
N, T., dreamed that watch, wrapped
in cotton in tin box, was secreted in a
cellar of a certain honse IN that town.
The owner of the house laughed at
Oscar, who wanted to look for the
watch, but finally went down to the
cellar with him. and sure enough Kidd
found the watch just as he had d.eam-
ed. Then the owner of the house
claimed the watch because it had been
found on his premises, and he kept it,
too.
A strange variety of taste, says
London magazine, has prevailed in
various countries in regard to mush-
rooms. In Russia the peasants are never
without them. They are hung up to
dry in the roofs OF the cottages, like oat
cakes in Lancashire, and form great
ly esteemed relish to all sorts of dishes.
In some parts of Germany also. they are
largely preserved in brine for cooking
purposes. but in England it is only
lately that they have come at all into
general use.
So many Salt Lake Mormons are
leaving town that the gentiles are max
ing fun of their advertisements of
'clesing out sales" An eating house
has this legend posted in the doorway:
''Will leave Jerusalem for Woods X for
two days. Wiener wurst and sauer
kraut will be closed out below cost"
Even the bootblacks have caught the
infection. and one advertises: "Going
to the Palestine Underground for
month; regular Joseph Smith Celestial
shine below costr'
According to Constantinople cor
respondent, the sultan of Turkey is in
fearful dread of assassination. The
Russian proclivities of the sultan have
brought down on his head the wrath of
the high government and palace Of
ficials. Bairam Aga, the chief eunuch,
was requested recently to point out to
his majesty that Turkey was in the way
of becoming a second Persia, and he
gently reminded his majesty of the